[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v6.c82.29 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.29 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.29 - **Language:** English ### [v6.c82.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c82.29) The Vaiśeṣika-sūtra treats⁶⁶⁴ Kāla as included in the nine dravyas (substances, I. 5) and states that the indications of the existence of Kāla are the apprehensions of a thing as posterior or prior, the apprehension of simultaneity of certain things, the apprehension of a thing as lasting long or as being momentary, that it is \*nttya\*, one and the (efficient) cause of all things that are created. Praśastapāda gives the instance of an old man and a young man being seen by a person in one place and direction or in different directions, who apprehends after looking at a young man that another man called old differs from a young man as regards a grown-up moustache or beard, wrinkles on the body and baldness and so apprehends that the old man is remote from the young man and therefore apprehends him as beyond (\*para\*) while he thinks of the young man as near, posterior and so \*apara\*. - [Previous: v6.c82.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c82.28) - [Next: v6.c82.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c82.30) - [Up: v6.c82](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c82) ## Linked texts (1) - [Vaiśeṣikasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.vaisesika.vaisesikasutra) — Kaṇāda, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c82.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c82.29) · Pramāṇa